Africa United

<em>Africa United</em> is the story of modern day Africa told through its soccer. Travelling across thirteen countries from Cairo to the Cape Steve Bloomfield the former Africa Correspondent for <em>The Independent</em> meets players and fans politicians and rebel leaders discovering the role that soccer has played in shaping the continent. This wide-ranging and incisive book investigates Africa's love of soccer its increasing global influence the build-up to the 2010 World Cup itself and the social and political backdrop to the greatest show on earth.